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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script to put delimiter for a no delimiter variable length text file Post 302762439 by Gaurav Martha on Monday 28th of January 2013 12:26:18 PM
Old 01-28-2013
Thanks Bipin Smilie.. Though My Requirement is quite big.
I mean.. Suppose I have 1500 character data length for say 100 columns file and having length for all columns (as defined earlier example - not fixed) out of which -

Code:
sunilbassi031012345678901234567890123456789............1500(Characters)

say 1200 character are fixed length for say 70 columns and remaining 30 columns are having variable length. Now as mentioned in previous example -
Maximum length of all columns will be 1500
and least will be 1200.

Code:
sunilbassi031012345678901234567890123456789......1500 (100 columns)
sunilbassi031012345678901234567890123456789......1500 (90 columns)
sunilbassi031012345678901234567890123456789......1500 (80 columns)
sunilbassi031012345678901234567890123456789......1200 (70 columns) Least

Now I have to separate all these 100 columns with a delimiter and require some automation (Cause I have a situation where I need to separate 900 columns), as defining substring every time doesn't seems feasible.

Thanks in Advance!!

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-28-2013 at 01:29 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME
column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS
column [-entx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored unless the -e option is used. The options are as follows: -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. -s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. -t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. -x Fill columns before filling rows. -n By default, the column command will merge multiple adjacent delimiters into a single delimiter when using the -t option; this option disables that behavior. This option is a Debian GNU/Linux extension. -e Do not ignore empty lines. ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME " ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length. BSD
July 29, 2004 BSD
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